Phrygians

The Phrygians were an Indo-European people who settled in central and western Anatolia after the collapse of the Hittite Empire around 1200 BCE, probably migrating from the Balkans. They built a kingdom centred on Gordion that flourished in the 8th century BCE under Midas, wrote their language in an alphabet related to the Greek, and worshipped the mother goddess Matar. Phrygia later fell under Lydian, Persian and Hellenistic rule.